The total number of domain names worldwide has exceeded 183 million

Verisign publishes a regular quarterly report on the domain name industry, the Domain Name Industry Overview. The latest edition of the report, which summarizes the domain name industry overview for the first quarter of 2009, was released today. We selected some of the more interesting data from the report to discuss in this article.

Eye-catching data

Here are some numbers worth highlighting from Verisgn's report:

* By the end of the first quarter of 2009, the total number of top-level domain registrations worldwide was nearly 183 million.

* The total number of top-level domains worldwide increased by 12% in the quarter compared to the same period last year.

* The total number of country code top-level domains reached 74.1 million.

* The total number of country code top-level domains increased by 18% in the quarter compared to the same period last year.

The report also includes a table showing the total number of registrations for different top-level domains in each quarter.